Jurgen Klinsmann's close friend Bernhard Peters has revealed the reason he believes Klinsmann quit as Germany manager after World Cup 2006.The appointment of Matthias Sammer as the German football association's technical director was the cause for Klinsmann's exit, according to Peters.

Peters, the former coach of the Germany national hockey team, was also in the running to take the newly-created post at the DFB on the advice of Klinsmann.

But the DFB chose Sammer over Peters in a move which did not please the former Germany striker.

"Klinsmann was furious," explained Peters in his book 'Fuhrungs-Spiel', published this week.

"He was like a bull in a china shop and said 'that is it, I do not want Matthias at all'."

Peters claimed that Klinsmann's decision to step down as Germany coach after the World Cup was made as soon as Sammer was confirmed in his job.

And Peters told Munich's Abendzeitung: "Klinsmann took that as a decision against him.

"Among other things, that convinced him to give up after the World Cup."

Klinsmann will take over from Bayern Munich coach Ottmar Hitzfeld at the end of the season.

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